Updated: Sony confirms it is developing a new Home Application

Like most Android phones, Sony‘s Xperia mobiles add a custom skin and launcher app. That’s to add additional features to Android and help differentiate Sony phones from the competition. But now Sony has confirmed its launcher – Xperia Home – has effectively been mothballed, as it works on the (hopefully) 5G-totin', 48-megapixel photo-takin' Xperia XZ3.

Now it seems it‘s the Xperia user interface team who are getting their game faces on by developing a brand new interface to complement its updated hardware and leave other phone makers looking out of date, bad and stupid.

We may find out more at August’s IFA tech jamboree in Berlin, where Sony always has a big presence. Alternatively, the Japanese superbrand could hold everything back for a show-stopping announcement at Mobile World Congress in February 2019. We’ll let you know...